Word.ws English Dictionary

niggardise

niggardise noun: niggardliness.

Noun

niggardise (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Niggardliness.
    • “For he, whose daies in wilfull woe are worne, / The grace of his Creator doth despise, / That will not use his gifts for thanklesse nigardise.”1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin of niggardise

From niggard + -ise.

Questions about niggardise

What does niggardise mean?
Niggardise means niggardliness.
What part of speech is niggardise?
Niggardise is a noun.

Words near niggardise in the dictionary

  1. niggahs
  2. niggahz
  3. niggard
  4. niggarded
  5. niggarding
  6. niggardise
  7. niggardish
  8. niggardliest
  9. niggardlily
  10. niggardliness
  11. niggardlinesses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: niggardise (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “niggardise.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/niggardise. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.